Sunday, December 2, 2007

Assignment 6: "Advantages and disadvantages of blogs in the English classroom"

Essays are so difficult for me, because I don´t have the word gift and the ones that I had to write haven´t had a good qualification. But I will make an effort for this one!
Along this hole year we had been working on blogs to improve our English, it hasn´t be easy or very pleasant, but finally I found it worth it.
A blog is a website where you can post all the times you want (or must in this case) about an subjet. Nowdays you can find blogs about nature, diaries, etc.
To use this methodology the first requisite is to have a computer, then you must have an internet conexion and finally you must like (a little) computer things because other way it´ll be a completly torture.
Being honest the blog work has had many advantages for me, because I learnt how to make my own website, to change the colours and format to adapt it to my personality.
Also I´d learnt to write my opinion in other language, encouraging me to look for new words or to search the meaning of words that I already knew.
I´ve noticed that, as my oral and writing English are more fluid. Also now I made much less mistakes than before.
I think the main disadvantage is the time you need to dedicated it if you want to do a good job. Because besides this we have English Discoveries and face to face classes too. This without counting all the subjetcs proper of our career.
As an advice I suggest to extend the english hours in the academic curriculum, in this way students could dedicated more time to learn this universal language. Also, another solution could be reduce the activities, but I think isn´t worth it, because work in blogs is really helpful to learn to think in English.
To finish I will like to thanks to Ksenia and Leda who helped me to improve my English, because in spite of many leave the English course you didn´t do it which motivated me to go on.

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